Estimating software costs
Software Patents
Practical Software Maintenance: Best Practices for Managing Your Software Investment
Practical Software Maintenance: Best Practices for Managing Your Software Investment
Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
Joel on Software: Selected Essays
Joel on Software: Selected Essays
Communications of the ACM - Privacy and security in highly dynamic systems
The Dark Side of Valuation
Deriving mutual benefits from offshore outsourcing
Communications of the ACM - One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality
Outsourcing and Offshoring of Professional Services: Business Optimization in a Global Economy
Outsourcing and Offshoring of Professional Services: Business Optimization in a Global Economy
Source out, risk in [offshore software development]
IEEE Spectrum
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Offshore outsourcing of work to support software development and services is seen primarily as a transfer of labor to another shore. But with every outsourced job, intellectual property is transferred as well. Such transfers have significant long term effects on the balance of intellectual property IP generation and consumption. The value of intangibles is based on the income that these intangibles are expected to generate in the future. This paper relates the key issues of IP found in software, an important intangible, to business models used for offshoring. The use of a quantitative model for software valuation allows formal exploration of business alternatives. The motivation for this paper is to increase the awareness of the need for software valuation when developers of software and the users of that software reside in different countries. A scenario that involves Controlled Foreign Corporations as the mechanism for IP transfer is analyzed in detail.